Yap Boom

Marburg virus often spills over from bats and then spreads rapidly between people via contact with an infected person's bodily fluid.

Yap Boom of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Ethiopian authorities are going door-to-door in the area of the outbreak.

He says the goal is twofold.

The outbreak is in the southwest part of the country.

Neighboring South Sudan is also preparing its laboratories in the event that Marburg cases are found on the other side of the border.

Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.